The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-01
New Publications.

THE third number of the Ticknor Paper
Series is the brilliant new romance by G..
de Montauban, entitled The Cruise Of a
Wom0n Halter and filled with piquant and
entertaining incidents and situations. AS
one of our best critics says GO 1t is written
with masculine force and spirit and the sea
passages are fresh and lively. The story of
communicating man trapped into long
voyage with young widow, and the re-
suits" 1t is vivid breezy and picturesque
story which will be greatly enjoyed by
thousands of readers this summer. A we'll
known Boston poet commends the work
thus " This is capital story. The sea-
life and the incidents of the voyage-the
towing of the wreck, the captain and first
officers action concerning the wreck the
yellow fever, etc, being worthy of the au-
thor of The Wreck of the Grosvenor. "
Price fifty cents. Ticknor & Co., Boston.
HARPER's MAGAZINE for June contains 80
much that is good that it seems invidious
to make selections. George William Curtis
writes on the now very timely topic of the
relations between Author and Publisher
American Literary Critics ought to be read
by that class in the community The Inter-
state Commerce Law is explained. The
Kentucky Pioneers are capitally portrayed
by one of their direct descendants, Colonel
John Mason Brown. Charles Dudley
Warmers third paper in his entertaining
series of Mexican Notes describes, in Mr..
Warmers bright and sparkling style, his
travels and observations through the region
of Esperanza Vera Cruz San Juan, Jalapa
and Coatepec. a realistic story of Puritan
England in the middle of the seventeenth
century, Stephen Wycherlie, is told by
Howard Pyle, and there is vast amount of
other pleasant and useful reading. The
illustrations are of the highest order.
ROUNDABOUT TO Moscow, an Epicurean
Journey. is most delightful work of travel.
| The author is Mr.. John Bell Bouton, one of
the editors of the Journal Of Commerce.
Mr.. Bouton's book may be said to be
divided into two parts. half of the work re-
lating to his journey to and from Russia,
the remainder being devoted to what he
saw and did within the realms of the Gar.
The book is entertaining, lively and humor-
GUS all through, and if the authors tour was
half as delightful as his book is he is to be
envied. Mr.. Bouton interviewed the Russian
bear in his cave and found that he was not
so much of bear as is sometimes sup
posed. We think he will be responsible for
turning the attention of many tourists
toward Russia and he may well be salts
fed to accept the responsibility. The book
will be useful not only as a work of travel,
but because it will help to remove some
false prejudices against Russia. ID. Apple
! ton & Co.
SCRIBNER's MAGAZINE is an especially rich
number. 1t opens with an interesting and
suggestive article by Mr. John c. Ropes on
! Some Pictures of Napoleon. This paper is
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the various portraits of the great First Con-
sui. Mr.. Ropes gives us new point OF
view in regard to Napoeon's character
when he insists that he was as much
statesman as general. Peculiarly delight
| full is the new installment of the Thackeray
letters. f. j. Stimson has an article on the
Ethics of Democracy, and w. L, Brigham
both writes and illustrates an article on An
Uncommercial Republic, which turns out to
| be Guatemala Mrs Robert Louis Stevenson,
Il. 1.
tribute short stories Seths Brothers Wife
is continued. John Boyle O'Reilly, III. g.
Bunner, Ellen Burroughs, Mrs. James I.
Fields, Graham r. Tomson and Elizabeth
Akers are the poets of the number. Charles
Scribner's Sons, New York.
THE second number of Ticknor's paper
series is "a famous and widely-ap-
proved novel, Guenn, wave on the
Breton Coast, the chet-d' @uDre of Blanche
Willis Howard whose first book, One
Summer, won for her such large and
appreciative audience. Guenn is tale OF
love and art, the scene being laid in Brit
amy, and the picturesque shores and no
less picturesque people of this land of ro-
nance are wildly and graphically described,
The thousands of Miss Towards admirers
will find here much of her choicest ana
most entertaining work, with an entire
freshness of character and treatment, taking
them as she does, into scenes and combina-
tons that are as novel and original in fiction
as they are agreeable and fascinating. Inc
present is the seventh edition of this noble
story. The book is illustrated throughout
with some forty vignettes, initials, etc,
drawn expressly for it by a brilliant and
skillful American artist and illustrative of
French coast life.
THE american AgricultUriSt for June pre-
sents "A full account of the great Cattle and
Dairy Show held in New York during the
second week in May. The official awards
of prizes in the various classes are given,
and the most prominent prize animals are
depicted and described, as are also the
most important dairy implements and
structures on exhibition. During the week
the american AgrjculturiSt, which is a
monthly issued a daily edition at the show
grounds. 1t was generally regarded as
novelty in agricultural journalism June
Days is the title of bright, allegorical en-
craving by Mueller. In addition to these
there are engravings of various farm ami
mails, poultry, plans of houses, barns new
implements and machinery, useful and
ornamental plants, etc, etc. Over fifty
well-known agricultural and horticultural
writer's contribute to this number. In the
Humbug Columns several new and re-
vived frauds are exposed and ventilated.
Price Sl50 per year, English or German
single numbers fifteen cents. Address
american AQricuituriSt, 751 Broadway, n. Y.